
Debating Russia's Aims in Syria
There is a debate within U.S. policy circles about Russian president Vladimir Putin's strategy in Syria. While all agree that Putin...
Marine Peace Park Plan Offers Promise for South China Sea
This article originally appeared in the Geopolitical Monitor on October 25, 2015. View it here. Academics, marine biologists, retired...
Magna Carta: Is it worth the bother?
Eight hundred years ago, royal scribes were busy making exemplifications of Magna Carta—which rebellious barons had forced King John to...
YCW Conversation – The China-US Climate Deal: Game Changer or Disappointment?
This is a repost from Young China Watchers. In November 2014, President Xi Jinping and President Obama signed a “historic agreement”...
The THAAD Debate Returns
During his visit to Seoul this month, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sent South Korean policymakers into a tizzy when he suggested to...
Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Transparency and Beyond
On March 17, the United Nations Convention on Transparency was opened for signature in Mauritius. The Mauritius Convention, as it is...
From hip-hop to jihad, how the Islamic State became a magnet for converts
This article originally appeared in the Washington Post. THE HAGUE — She was a redheaded rebel, the singer in the family, a...
Lebanon’s Refugee Burden
In the tiny Lebanese village of Bar Elias, about two dozen Syrian women with solemn, worry-lined faces, some with infants in their laps,...
THAAD on the Peninsula
U.S. plans to move forward with deploying its foremost advanced missile defense system, the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system...
James Mann on President George W. Bush
In his latest book, author James Mann takes on the George W. Bush presidency, a presidency defined by the terrorist attacks of September...
China’s Maritime Silk Road Gamble
Ever since Xi Jinping announced the creation of a Maritime Silk Road in an October 2013 speech to the Indonesian parliament, China’s...
U.S.-Iran Nuclear Deal: The Need for a Regional Perspective
POMEAS OP-ED, 20 March 2015 When the Obama administration's ground-breaking effort to carve out a nuclear deal was in its initial phases,...
King Abdullah: A Saudi education revolutionary
This is a repost from Al Arabiya. From the outside, the tan brick and glass mid-rise office building in a suburb of Virginia seems...
Is the Whole World on Fire?
This is a repost from www.fpri.org. “I am a very old man, and I have lived through almost the entire century,” wrote Isaiah Berlin in his...
Is Egypt a Rising Tiger on the Nile?
This is a repost from Al-Arabiya. The people of Egypt had spoken. During eight days in September, Egyptians from all walks of life came...
The Bush Institute Talks with Ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli about the Jasmine Revolution and the Ara
*Re-posted with permission from The Bush Institute. Today marks the fourth anniversary of the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, which led to...

Is the advent of ISIS inevitable or reactionary?
Executive summary of a speech given in a seminar at the House of Commons, London 20 November 2014. *Emirhan Yorulmazlar Whether the...
On Realism, Old and New
This article is a repost from The American Prospect Magazine. This article appears in the Fall 2014 issue of The American Prospect...
Punching Above Your Weight in International Affairs
This blog has been cross-posted from the Tulane University Center for Inter-American Policy & Research. At a recent event in San José...



















